terrain

A multimedia cross year exhibition curated by BA (Hons) Art and Design Interdisciplinary students

from Leeds College Of Art. This exhibition explores the vision and narrative of a group of artists in

response to their current projects in relation to the theme Terrain.

Responding to various sites has been a key aspect

of this with many artists taking inspiration from locations around Leeds and some from the

exhibition space itself. This event is a showcase of what we do and a celebration of our

creative community.

“ Design evolves in the playground of the Imagi-nation. Action is the body finding all the building

blocks to make this happen.” Kerri Butterworth (Project Manager)

About Terrain

“Space, time, journey, pattern, unity, exploration”Matthew Silverstone (Curation)

Jade Ellis (Promotions/Marketing/Curation)

Paul Lawrence and Daniel Horsman

“This project was a collaboration of skills and ideas. The idea was to create a piece of art that could be displayed in a combination of ways; it could be a painting in landscape or portrait; a visual installation or interactive art piece.The function of this piece was to link the past, pre-sent and future of vinyl records to produce a unity of sounds to make one new sound.”

Audio Symposium

Edward Kelly

“Topography: noun, the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.

“We arrange, project and promote an image, to

our friends and family; yet keep the secret heart to ourselves, a privacy that is never revealed. Yet like

the terrain we change subtly. Who are we? A million parts of everyone else? Do we really know?”

Triple X

Projection, photography, silk screen print

Bethany Trunkfield

ErosionInk, Bleach & water on paper

This piece is inspired by the Industrial Revolution ‘when man met machine’ highlighting the relation-

ship between the man made and natural form. Man created a new environment, which will always be influenced by the decaying effects of modern life.

This piece represents the erosion of the smoke filled industrial era.

Chris Winter

“Living in the Yorkshire countryside, I am surround-ed by the source of my inspiration. It is a landscape

full of open moors, dry stone walls, big skies and hidden wooded valleys. I work to find abstractions from the detail of texture, to create new forms and to capture the raw energy from this powerful land-

scape.”

“This series simply entitled ‘Terrain’ (Oil on Pa-per) was made in response to the feeling of frozen ground underfoot, as part of a site specific body of work in which I am attempting to re-create a visual

representation of the site without using pictorial documentation.”

Terrain

Oil on Canvas

Jade Ellis

Work based around aspects of social and personal consciousness. How we see, build and interact with the

world around us. The places we live, and the commu-nities we become a part of, to the way we design and

shape our world.

“The struggle to communicate our internal fluid selves into a tangible format. Tension, individuality and its

dividing forces.”

The body as vessel - the body as object.

Wooden wearable installation piece

David Rutter

Representing journey is the main focus of this piece, having explored the architecture and imagery that

emerges along Leeds/Liverpool canal. The overcast-ing background illustrates the murky appearance of the canal’s waters, which works in unison with the contrast-

ing line work.

“As an artist my work must show strong visual concepts, as my illustration tends to speak for itself. For this exhi-bition I have created a large landscape wooden board,

which has been built up with a range of medias including inks, spray paint, collage and illustration. I found myself

driven by the flow and motion of the canal. The length of the piece signifies the journey along the 127-mile ca-

nal, which then spills out to my interacting ideas, which are centered on this notion of terrain. With a mixture of

type and illustration, Leeds as a cityscape uses straight edges and flowing lines, making the overall atmosphere of my piece purvey the dirt of an inner city among clean

cut organisation of an establishment.””

Untitled

Wooden board with spray paint and pen.

Sarah Binless

‘“I’m a magpie. I collect ideas, techniques and materials and I don’t fit into a pigeonhole. I love to

layer processes and techniques, combining conceptual elements with craft focused

outcomes. In the first year of Art and Design Inter-disciplinary, I am never more excited than when I

am learning how to make something new.

Routes, paths and obstacles. Transitions between spaces, between aware and unaware, familiar and

the overlooked. The drawing becomes a process of continual devia-

tion and correction, aberration and compromise. Negotiating the path across the page as we navi-

gate our path through the world.”

Deviation, Hesitation and Repetition

Ink on paper

Zara Nobel

Swarm

A glowing, Perspex invasion

“As a practicing artist and designer, I focus heavily on media; illustration, photography stencil and small multi-ple creation. Repetition, pattern and line are all vital to my work as well as investigating time consuming, mo-

notonous processes. Exploring man-made vs. machine made pieces has also plated a big part within my current

work; I also enjoy investigating and destroying various vintage stereotypes, looking into ideas that go against

the grain or norm. “

Kelly Ward

Dark Space

Interactive installation , black out curtain, photographic paper, LED light

Whilst being heavily influenced by my current practise and study; of equating non-space with dark space, this selected experiment is all about explor-ing my interest to how we experience and perceive

dark space.”

Gabriella Mann

‘If you step on a bat dropping it will disintegrate’

A1 tracing paper, black mono printing ink. Stop motion film, 1:07 minutes

“At its core I believe my practice to focus on a story. An object’s story; its pre-existence before I set my eyes on it, questioning how it got to be in such a

condition. A crack in a wall. A pothole in the road. A chip on a cup. Each shows a sign of a life, the presence of a being, a force upon its natural existence, which has in some way altered its appearance and journey. This

alteration drives my ideas, experimenting with materials, exploring further how they can be used and what they

can represent in order to re-find, rediscover and reinvent their subconscious.”

Symbolising presence, the tracing paper emulates the fleeting materiality of objects, structures and beings

within our own lives. The black ink signifies the influence of time, weather, human touch on the life and death of a

physical structure.

Julie Taylor

Metamorphoses

Recycled carrier bags Installation

“My work explores the boundaries between two op-posing views of the world: the world as an exploitable

resource, and the world as an organic ecosystem where everything and everybody within it share an intimate

world of mutuality and interdependence.”

Paul Lawrence

“This painting is an expression of abstract Industrial pol-lution, panoptic structures, and hierarchies of power.

The effect this Industrialisation is having on the natural environment is another key concern of my work. This all relates to both the design in action brief and my disser-

tation study.”

Abstract City Structure

Acrylic and Ink on Canvas

Ryan Brown AKA. Unusual Collective

“Currently a third year student studying Art & Design (in-terdisciplinary) at Leeds College of Art & Design. Hand made art is the passion, so hand made art is what you

see.In an age where computers have taken over our art, I

aim to produce work that stands out from the norm. No digital prints, nothing commercial and minimal use of

computer screens. All made to my own perfection.This piece represents Dystopia and Utopia. It can be

read as a thing of beauty and perfection, or as a sign of the corruption in our world.”

To break the work down, the circle could either show a feeling of being complete and whole, but could also

represent Big Brother and a watchful eye. The triangle is linked to camping, due to it being the basic tent shape.

This triangle could also convey the Illuminate, and a government hierarchy. The numbers are linked to the loss of identity, portraying us as numbers, rather than

individuals with names.

Worn Outpen, wooden board

Matt Silverstone

UntitledLaser cut wood and eched copper

“Reflection through meditative repetition and wanderings about cartography, inducing memory.”

Patterns and pathways explored, future adventures imagined.

Kerri Butterworth

“An exploration of the interrelationship between the digital and physical world: The effects this relatively

new coexistence is having on our bodies, identities and relationships are what I seek

to express in my work.”

“This project has been inspired by the locations of my site-specific brief, Seagulls and Scrap, my

voluntary work with teenagers at the Grafton Centre and my dissertation study. It has

culminated in this exhibition, which has bought all three years of our course together to showcase and

celebrate what we do.”

Plug In. Switch on. Switch off.101 strings of electronic components

Stephanie Bryant

Time and TideVideo, 10mins 54secs, 2010

This personal project concerned themes relating to time space and identity. I have documented the lifestyles of

two sets of grandparents; both lived/currently live on Walney Island, off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness and

inhabit their caravan homes. I have attempted to record their attitudes on society, along with their general

existence. They mention current issues in politics, however that is contrasted with their lighter, less serious

conversations and interests.“I am currently finishing my final year at Leeds College

of Art, studying Ba (HONS) Art and Design (Interdiscipli-nary). I have an interest in the study of people,

attachment, identity, space and an intention to develop my own practice through experimental media,

crossing over different processes, including 3D work, video and textiles. My work reflects my interest in the

moving image, and how it can deliver representation and meaning. I have a passion for working with others and I

am currently in collaboration with Rosie Curtis (fellow art and design student), however I enjoy both individual and

collaborative projects.”

Saul Pearson

N/A

Fades to Black

Spray paint on black paper

Cheryl Huntbach

Small Domestic Incidents’

Cheryl’s practice involves a discipline incorporating seriality and repetition through ritualised modes of production. She explores diverse notions of draw-

ing across; lo-fi, hand processes and mechanical means of reproduction. She is concerned with pattern, process and obsessive acts of making. This experimental piece is the second, in a new series of site-responsive works. The first piece involved a three-day temporary, wall drawing in

Room 326 Hotel Roma Reial, Barcelona 4 – 6th November 2012.

A4 blank paper, transparencies, tracing paper, metronome, slide projector and piano

Lilly Van Lennep

‘Everyone is approximately six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the

world, so that a chain of “friend of a friend” statements can be made, on average, to connect

any two people in six steps.’

Connection

Printed Ink using Blue Tac stamps

Will Hammon

“Tower is a piece based on the Ferrier housing es-tate, London (demolished in 2012). The large-scale

estate was once home to over 2000 people, what was once an ideal utopian living, towards the end

of its life became a hot house for crime. The estate stood empty for 3 years before finally being

demolished. The Ferrier estate was seen as a template for modern living and aspects of the

development were rolled out across the U.K. With the death of this former British utopia, with roads in

the sky ‘Tower’ seeks to explore the psychology and effects of condensed living on humanity. The piece

sits at 8ft tall imposing the viewer. The new construction begins on the Ferrier estate

in 2013, replacing it with double the amount of homes.”

The Tower

Charlotte Dawson

mini flower box broochcopper , silver , real foliage

“I am a mixed media artist living in York. Since starting to study at Leeds college of Art earlier this

year I have being experimenting with a variety of different materials. Working with metal in mainly small proportions has become something that I

both enjoy and appreciate. I find a lot of my inspi-ration in nature often using real foliage in a lot of

my prior mixed media pieces. I also love to forage and use found objects where I can. This piece was mainly inspired by the city of Leeds and the feelings I have been experiencing since travelling from York

each day. Some times in large cities the greenery can be missing slightly, especially in the busy

shopping centres.I want my piece to help people to see we can all

have a garden no matter how tiny.”

Saiyme Gultekin

A Chair Refurbished chair, soil, grass seeds, water

Dedicated to Martin Barker

Sarah Taylor

Re-recognition BingeInteractive Mixed Media

An investigation into relationships between human subconscious and social spaces; how specific

geographical areas encompass terrain physically, and metaphorically within community bodies.

Looking at the social entity that is the local pub; re-creating common, familiar images, sounds and

tastes, in different surroundings/formats to challenge our subconscious to connect with them

and explore how senses trigger connections to places, spaces, terrains.

Sophie Gilbert

An instillation based on the intimate relationships between domestic space and memory.

“When trying to find the sight of memory in an ar-chitectural landscape, one need look no further that

the personal memories of home.”

‘Space, Memory and Identity’(Sara-Jayne parsons)

Home is where the heart is

Installation

Natalie Fyfe

‘I experience a gagging sensation and, still farther down, spasms in the stomach, the belly; and all the organs shrivel up the body, provoke tears and bile, increase heartbeat, cause the forehead and hands to perspire.... I expel myself, I spit myself out, I ab-

ject myself within the same motion through which ‘I’ claim to establish myself.’

(Kristeva 1982:3)

Let them eat cake...

Video 4.28 minutessponge cake, sugar paste, food colouring, water

Rosephine Carol Fernandes

We are all mannequins. We are fashioned and moulded by society, by trends, by advertisements. Idealistic lifestyles on how we should live, what we

should wear, where our place in society is; these ideals are constantly projected on to us.

“My current work aims to play with and challenge the portrayal of women in advertising and to ques-

tion if they really do depict women’s place in society and in the everyday.”

‘Mannequin’

Drawings projected onto Mannequin

Jade EllisSeries of three video pieces

vessel/object/16 seconds/1 minute 6 seconds

58 seconds/1 minute 6 seconds/16 seconds

Kerri Butterworth Digital Body

1.01 min

This is a stop-motion video that explores the theme of the female body within the

digital world. Simulations and stimulation; how has the

digital portrayal of women affected female identity?

Megan Bakerfaces2012

Michael BarryMusic box

(2012)1:11 minutes

‘Music box’ samples a viral video called “SOPHIE DOES 40 PIROUETTES!!!!” and repeats a short segment to make a

potentially everlasting pirouette.Abi Sharp

Even More trianglesBursting BalloonsInverted Bounce

Fairground LightsBounce

17 secs/14 secs/1.07 secs/20 secs/2011/2012

“I am a motion graphic artist with a great desire to work with tactile materials. I enjoy the traditional methods of animation and try to

immerse this into a contemporary platform. I am driven by the relationship between music and moving image. I like to make shapes systematically

jump around.”

Video Reel /Band Reel

Megan Alexandria Bolton

#2 (2012)

Brendan ReillyBRENDAN

2012

‘Man by day. Big boobed Granny by night.’

Rachael ForsterSpatial Build #3

20122 minutes

Dita SramkovaRiver Heals2.5 Minutes

Fell in love with the dark arches and the fact that it leads to a nice hidden place in the city. As water flows, changes direction and takes and brings

from us, it has all become about river, streams, and water and under cur-rants influencing our lives symbolically or literally. Using melted bottles

with text inside, the film was projected on the image and merged together to symbolize the natural changes and influence of the area, but perhaps

more than that....

Video Reel /Band Reel

Roxanne Van ZylDancers in Space

(2012)12 seconds

Natalie Fyfe Trench Foot

2.15 seconds(2012)

Daniel Bamford & Luke InghamWHALES / DANCE

Analogue / Digital Video

Dream like nostalgia and mindless displays of movement.

Contact Information

Rosephine Carol [email protected]

rosephinefernandes.wixcom/rosephineSarah Binless

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Kelly [email protected]

kellymward17.wix.com/kellywardStephanie Bryant

[email protected]/steph

sbryant1990.wix.com/rosieandstephMatthew Silverstone

[email protected]/matthew-

silverstone Saul Pearson

[email protected] Horsman

[email protected] Trunkfield

[email protected] brown

[email protected] Winter

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Sophie [email protected]

Megan [email protected]

Roxanne Van [email protected]

Gabriella Mann [email protected].

Zara [email protected]/znoble

Natalie [email protected]

nattif.wix.com/nataliefyfetrenchfootresidency.tumblr.com

Daniel [email protected]

Luke [email protected]

Kerri [email protected]

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David [email protected]

Edward [email protected]

Michael [email protected]

Jade [email protected]

Rachel Forster [email protected]

Abi [email protected]/abis

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